Equation 108 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole
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What is PROPOSED is the packaging: treating hover cost, cooling cost, and communication cost as three additional, independently trackable terms that must be added to [] before any claim about a distant experimenter’s actual resource advantage is meaningful, and showing, for the specific Schwarzschild, Kerr-ergosphere, and free-fall cases examined here, that each candidate route to an advantage is closed by a different term: the static route by divergent support acceleration, the free-fall route by tidal disruption bounded by the observed mass spectrum of real black holes, and the Kerr-ergosphere route by the ordinary energy accounting of the Penrose process itself.
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